NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 crew, including astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, departed Kennedy Space Center’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building and are now on their way across the Florida spaceport to Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. […]
Just moments ago, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 crew began the walk that every NASA astronaut has made since Apollo 7 in 1968, heading to the elevator and down through the double doors below the Neil A. Armstrong Building’s Astronaut Crew Quarters at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Before leaving the suit-up room, the crew completed […]
NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov are in the Astronaut Crew Quarters’ suit up room inside Kennedy Space Center’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building in Florida. A team of SpaceX suit technicians is assisting as the crew members put on […]
We’re about 4 hours away from the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission. Below are key milestones leading up to launch, along with critical events that occur shortly after liftoff. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are scheduled to launch at 11:10 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space […]
About 4.5 hours from now, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff aboard a SpaceX […]
NASA, SpaceX, and international partner teams completed the Launch Readiness Review for the agency’s Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station, with mission leaders polling “go” to proceed into the launch count. The team now will progress toward liftoff no earlier than 11:10 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 1, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral […]
Launch weather officers with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict a 55% chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission at 11:10 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 1. A ridge of high pressure over the Mid‑Atlantic is directing warm, moist air across Florida, producing scattered showers and mid‑level […]
The U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron predicts a 60% chance of favorable weather for Thursday’s launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission. The primary weather concerns are the cumulus cloud rule and flight through precipitation. The Crew-13 mission will launch NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and […]
With the rocket on the launch pad, the four-person crew for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station participated in a dry dress rehearsal Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, […]
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission rolled out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday, Sept. 27. Teams raised the rocket to vertical position at Space Launch Complex 40, where it will await liftoff no earlier than 11:10 a.m. EDT Thursday, […]
